When you Traverse a Subdivision what is the best way to set the parent parcel to historic.

[CurtisWursten1]

In the Pro Parcel Fabric when you traverse an entire subdivision what do you do with the historic/parent parcel?  Before doing the traverse do you run the Set Historic tool on the parent parcel or do you run the Delete Parcel tool on the parent parcel?  When these tools run do the lines also get retired/deleted or do you have to select the lines separate.  I've been having trouble with the workflow and I can't tell if it is my imported data that is giving me strange results or if I'm not using the correct tools.  Thanks for the help.

[ChristineLeslie]

Hi Curtis

It depends what you want to do with the parent parcel - do you want to keep it current or make it historic? 

For example - you may want to keep it current and change its parcel type to Subdivision and maintain it in a separate parcel type from your traverse parcels. If you dont want to maintain the parent Subdivision parcel in a separate parcel type then you can use Set Historic to set the parcel as historic. You can also delete it, if you dont want to save it as a historic parcel.

To see what happens with lines when you set parcels as historic - see this help topic and scroll down to the "Parcel features" section.

https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/help/data/parcel-editing/setcurrentorhistoric.htm

You can also use Copy Lines To to split a parent parcel into smaller parcels as described in this workflow:

https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/help/data/parcel-editing/parcelsplitworkflow.htm

Regards

Christine

Parcel Editing Team